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UjusME
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OsirisX
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It looks promising, expecially the 8gigs compared to the 2 gig bandwith for the video card.
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UjusME
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I would like to see how it performs when it is finally in production and so are the motherboards that accept it.  |
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OsirisX
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The thing that I'm most worried about is the price considering how expensive the sound and video cards are.
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UjusME
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Price will be a big factor when it first comes out. But I'm sure there will be a budget one available though. |
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ZeroByte
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Like any new technology it first needs to become mainstream and standard before the price drops. Demand is going to play a big factor in this technology.
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OsirisX
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Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:56 pm |
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Take SATA hds for example, they are almost the same price as ata hds.
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| unknowndarknessx wrote: |
| It looks promising, expecially the 8gigs compared to the 2 gig bandwith for the video card. |
Your reply is reminiscent of most slashdot posts, you haven't read the article have you?
The article goes to great length to show that the added "bandwidth" of PCI Express is not going to have an effect on the graphics card market. Hell, a card on an AGP4x bus shows almost no increase in speed when moved to an AGP8x bus.
This is due to the nature of the graphics cards for PC's. The PC is a modern marvel of inefficiency. High speed end nodes (peripherals) with slow interconnects (busses). There are plenty of excellent articles available on the web that show in great detail the problems with current PC trends. The Playstation 2 architecture is an example of almost obscene efficiency if you want to read about it.
In the end, PCI Express is a step in the right direction due to the fact that it provides a higher speed, channelable (in the form of lanes) interconnect. This is a step in the right direction but the PC will remain an inefficient machine for as long as it is profitable.
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OsirisX
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I've read most of the article, although I can't find the spot where they mention that the bandwith increase will not increase the performance of the video card.
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Weaver
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| unknowndarknessx wrote: |
| I've read most of the article, although I can't find the spot where they mention that the bandwith increase will not increase the performance of the video card. |
Specifically pages 2 - 4. Clearly stated with graphical benchmarks as well. Here is the final "conclusion."
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| Conclusion? The tests show that there's no real difference in today's applications between AGP 4x and 8x. So if we can't see any difference between 1GB/s and 2GB/s bandwidth, then you really won't find any improvements if you scale it to 4GB/s with PCI Express. Maybe different latency times of the buses can make a difference but it looks like PCI Express won't accelerate anything for graphics. |
Thus, my statement is coherent with article. The thing I did not mention was latency, which might prove to realistically (as oppose to theoretically) have an affect on performance.
Be sure to read the article for a complete description.
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